Chapter 14

(Please take it easy on my English skills. It is my second language.)

"Your move first." Colonel Lee used one hand to signal Leon to attack him

"Alright, if that's what you want"

Leon rushed a few steps and launched one kick at Lee's chest with full speed. The same move he tried on Big Cheese in Spain during their first encounter. To his surprise, Lee stood his ground without making a move until the last moment. Lee slightly slanted his body to the right, while raised his left arm a little on his side. Leon's foot passed right between Lee's body and arm. In a flash, Lee closed his arm and Leon's calf was stuck between Lee's left arm and his body. Leon tried to pull back his leg but failed. Lee stood on his ground not moving again while Leon had only his left leg standing. Immediately Leon jumped with one leg into air and used his remaining leg to kick at Lee's face. Right before his foot could reach Lee's face, Lee suddenly raised his right arm and caught Leon's left leg by ankle. Followed by spinning to the right, Lee threw Leon away after let go of both Leon's legs. Leon was throwing onto the ground and slipped another meter before stopped. His felt his back hurt, but he stood up again.

"Sorry, that was not exactly kungfu, but I couldn't help doing it when I saw your legs were so slow." Lee said

"This guy is a lot tougher than I expected" Leon thought "And he is trying to embarrass me"

"Your move again please." Lee asked

Leon rushed forward with caution. This time he punched at Lee's face with his fists. Lee stood his ground without moving his feet. He dodged Leon's every punch easily by only moving his upper body or just the head. Leon continued to punch at Lee over and over as fast as he could. Lee dodged all of them without even look like he was using much effort.

After about 10 punches, Leon started to use combos of kicks and punches. Lee still did not move one step, he dodged most Leon's attacks while blocked a few kicks with his forearms. After another 10 seconds of continuous attacks, Leon launched another high kick at Lee's face. This time Lee suddenly crouched down and made a whirling. Lee's right leg sweep through the floor and hit Leon's only standing leg on ground level. Leon had the other leg high up in the air when his standing leg was hit. He dropped onto the ground on his back.

"Want to try again?" Lee asked

"I think you have won already." Leon replied as he got up onto his feet

"Come on Leon, try again. You can do better than that." Lee urged

"This guy is too much, and he just wants to make me look stupid." Leon thought

"Ok, I will give one last try." Leon still wanted to win.

Leon slowly moved toward Lee. When he was getting really close to Lee, Leon suddenly made patting at Lee with both arms widely open. He thought he might have to get hold of Lee or this guy would just keep dodging. Just as Leon's both arms almost reached Lee, Lee flipped over Leon's head and slightly kicked on the back of Leon's head as he flipped over. Leon was unable to stop himself and he was dropped onto the ground on his face. Behind him, Lee landed on his feet and he was facing Leon as he had already turned around while he was still in the air.

"Ok, I give up. Your fighting skills are much better than mine."

"Hey, what's the hurry? I haven't started my attacking yet." Lee was determined to embarrass Leon again "Try again."

"I know when to quit. Enough is enough."

"Alright, if you don't want hand to hand combat any more. How about use a knife? I heard you are good at that." Lee asked with a deriding smile on his face

"Are you sure? Someone can get hurt in a knife fight." Leon was confused

"Guess you don't know. We have training equipments here. We have all kinds of melee weapons without edge or blade. We put red ink on them, so once land a hit there will be a red mark on your clothes. Want to try it?" Lee asked

"I guess I could" Leon's knife fighting skill was way better than his own hand to hand combat skills. He was eager to beat Lee, the man who held a grudge against him because he thought Leon had stolen Ada from him even though Ada was never his to begin with.

After both of them took a training knife into their hands, they stood face to face again in the middle of the room.

"Your move please." Lee asked

"Sure." Leon replied and he walked forward with the knife in his right hand.

Just as Leon reached right in front of Lee, Leon did a sudden 360 degree turn and waved the knife for a circle to cut at Lee. Just by the time he reached 180 degree as he was facing the opposite direction, an arm came from his behind and grabbed his chest from rear left. At the same time a knife came from his rear right and it was against his throat.

"Too slow on the unnecessarily whirling, you could be dead already if I had a real knife." Lee's voice came from behind "Try again." And Lee let go of Leon

"What the…" Leon was surprised "This guy is fast. Too fast! Even Krauser was cut in the chest by this move before."

Leon ran toward Lee again, and he made a slash at Lee's throat. Lee dodged it easily by slanting his upper body backwards by only a little, and at the same time he grabbed Leon's arm with one hand and pulled Leon closer. The next moment Leon's throat was against Lee's knife again.

"Try again."

"Ok, I can't even get a single attack off. He is capable of killing me in a single strike every single time." Leon thought

"I lost. You won." Leon had no other choice

"Wait a minute. How about I drop my knife?" Lee said as he dropped his knife onto the floor "Come on now, I am unarmed while you have a knife"

"Are you sure?" Leon did not believe an unarmed man could ever challenge someone with a knife.

"Yes, I am sure. Give me your best shot." Lee replied

Leon rushed forward at Lee and launched several slashes in a row. Lee dodged all his attacks. Then at the end of the slashes, Leon made a pierce at Lee's face. Right before the knife was able to reach Lee's face, Lee suddenly grabbed Leon's right wrist with his own left hand. At the same time Lee moved Leon's knife away from himself, his right hand grabbed Leon's throat and he pressed Leon onto the floor with a sudden push of the right hand. Leon was lying on his back with his right hand held by Lee, while Lee's right hand was locked onto Leon's neck against the floor.

"Got you again, Leon." Lee laughed as he stood up

"I don't know. If it was a real battle, you can't possibly kill me with that one hand of yours" Even though Lee had Leon dropped onto the ground, Leon did not believe that was much of a threatening attack since Lee only had a hand on his neck.

"Sure I could. I can crash your neck with two fingers if I wanted to. Let alone an entire hand. It is called Chi in material arts. Have you ever heard of material artists can break a load of bricks with a single strike with bare hand? Do you obviously believe human bones are stronger than a pill of bricks? It is the Chi that we have practiced for years, the inner energy of human body."

"Ok…" Leon did not know a thing about it

"Give another try." Lee laughed

"Ok, here I come"

Leon knew his own direct attack wouldn't work on this guy. So he planned to use tricks. Years of being a secret service had taught him tricks were needed in many real situations. Although this was not a real battle, Leon wanted to beat Lee for a change.

Leon walked a few steps and picked up Lee's knife from the ground which Lee had dropped earlier. Now he was holding two knives. Once reached just a meter away from Lee, Leon suddenly made a large step forward and started slashing with both knives. With one knife in each hand, Leon was able to attack a lot faster than before. Lee was determined to show how superior his fighting skill was compare to Leon, so he still tried not to move his position. Slashing after slashing, Lee dodged everything Leon threw at him. Leon moved closer so that gives Lee less room and less time to react. Lee continued to dodge without returning a single strike or even moving one step. For the next 10 seconds, Lee had his attention focused on Leon's two knives. Felt enough distraction was done, Leon suddenly made a kick at Lee's knee at the same time of another slash from above.

"I got you now" Leon thought "You can't possibly dodge two attacks at the same time, let alone your attention is focused on my hands"

Just before Leon's both hits were about to hit Lee from above and below, Lee suddenly raised both of his hands and closed onto Leon's knife from both sides. Leon's knife was stuck between Lee's hands despite it was a fast slash with Leon's full force. That was not it. At the same time that Lee had caught Leon's knife between his two palms, Lee had let himself fall back down toward the floor. At the same time Leon felt not only his kick from below had missed but also a foot was against his own knee. Leon was pulled forward by Lee since he was still holding onto the knife which was stuck between Lee's palms. He fell down with Lee together toward the floor, with Leon on the top. By the time Lee was hitting the floor first, Leon was less than 3 feet above him in the air and he was falling down on him. At that moment, Lee did a kick while lying on the floor. It made Leon flew forward instead of falling down, and Leon was dropped onto the ground two meters behind Lee's head. Leon had lost the knife which was held by Lee. He quickly got up into crouch position and turned around. Lee was already in crouch position too with one of Leon's knives. Leon immediately threw his knife at Lee with all his strength. The knife pierce through the air in a flash, then it suddenly stopped. Lee had caught the knife between his two fingers of his left hand in middle air. Just as Leon was stunned by Lee's move, Lee had thrown the knife in his right hand at Leon. Before Leon was able to react, the knife hit him on the forehead and then dropped onto the floor since it was just a training knife with no edge. Leon was still in crouch position with his mouth open. A red mark was on his forehead.

"You had just died again, Mr. Leon Kennedy, the secret service of the United States." Lee laughed out loud as he stood up from crouching.

"That's enough!" A woman's voice suddenly appeared. Everyone turned around to look at the doorway.

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On the other side of the earth near Raccoon City,

"Sir, the tunnel is completed. We left just one last meter of dirt in the way as you ordered. The last layer of dirt can be digging out in just 20 minutes tops." A worker reported as all the workers stopped digging

"Good work." Nicholai replied "You can go now for today"

"What about our checks?" The worker asked as all the workers were looking at Nicholai

"You will get your checks tomorrow. We will still need you to dig the last meter of dirt tomorrow night."

"Alright." Workers replied as they started to walk toward the tunnel entrance

The tunnel entrance was inside an abandoned camp house inside the forest about 2 miles away from the fences built by the military. Nobody ever came to this part of the forest which was so close to the defense perimeter outside the Raccoon City. Nicholai still had posted two guards there inside the camp house. In case anyone getting too close to the camp house, the guards would tell them to leave.

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Back in the dojo at Sand City,

"Leon, are you ok?"

Ada in her pretty red dress appeared at the door. She was so pretty and sexy.

"I am fine, honey. Lee is good. I am no match for him." Leon stood up with the clear red mark on his forehead

"Pick on someone your own size, Lee." Ada was upset. She was not happy that Lee picked on Leon like that. Lee had been practicing martial arts since he was a kid, he was on a whole different level compare to Leon. Ada knew it because they were training in the same dojo when she was in the high school. Ada had learned how tough Lee was first hand. The two of them had been against each other in training duels before. Ada was completely outclassed, even though Lee was taking easy on her. Lee liked Ada, and he had purposely made Ada fell onto him during one of the practice matches and held her long enough to make her flush.

"Ada. It is so nice to see you come here." Lee's expression has changed "I just love that red dress of yours. You are gorgeous."

"Stop picking on my fiancé. If you want a real challenge, pick me." Ada did not fall for Lee's sucking up.

"I wouldn't want to hurt a lady, especially not you." Lee remembered how he had completely outclassed Ada even during Ada's last days at the dojo. It was weird that now Ada wanted to challenge him again after he had so many more years of continuous training on her.

"I don't mind. Get ready, Lee. I am coming whether you like it or not." Ada replied

"Honey. You sure about that?" Leon asked Ada. He knew Ada now has superhuman strength and speed. Lee was fast, but he couldn't possibility to match Ada's strength even he was a material artist.

"Don't worry, my handsome fiancé. I will take easy on him." Ada smiled at Leon

Lee was very confused. Take easy on him? Ada was no match for him, and now he had improved even more than before while Ada had stopped training years ago. He had continuous training while Ada was on her mission away from home. What was Ada up to? Was she bluffing? Or was she just being seduced by this American guy and now she was out of her mind?

"Ada. You can't fight in that dress and those high heels." Lee said

"I don't have the time to change. Let's get this over with before me and my fiancé go home together" Ada replied. It made Lee grew more angry inside when he heard that, as Ada and Leon calling each other honey this, fiancé that.

"Let's go." Ada urged Lee

"Your move first, Ada." Lee replied and he dropped the knife that Leon had thrown at him earlier. He put himself in a more suitable more serious way of standing. He knew Ada was a lot better fighter than Leon, although he did not believe Ada could possibly beat him. When he was fighting Leon, he never even took it seriously enough to use standard fighting posture.

Ada slowly walked toward Lee in her usual sexy walking style. It made both Leon and Lee wanted to hold her in their arms right now. Everyone else in the room was also staring at Ada as she approaching Lee.

About just six steps away from Lee, Ada suddenly flipped forward. In less than a second, she was in front of Lee and her foot were about to kick Lee on the chest. Lee made a large dodge move and Ada had missed.

"She isn't using her superhuman speed" Leon thought as he watched from the side of the room.

Ada landed behind Lee and immediately she did a whirling kick at Lee's face. Lee caught her leg by ankle in middle air with his left hand.

"That is one fine leg you have there, Ada. But you still unnecessarily flip around too much. Your fighting style is still not mature enough to challenge me. Maybe we can spend some time training together. I will teach…"

Suddenly Ada jumped into air with the other leg, and it kicked Lee right in the face. It was so fast. Lee did not have the time to react. Ada's kick hit Lee right in the forehead, and Lee dropped onto the floor over 6 meters away.

"How…" Lee struggled trying to get up, he felt dizzy as he was hit in the head "Her moves were still the same as before, but how did she all the suddenly increase her speed by THIS much?"

"Are you done yet?" Ada smiled at Lee. She increased her speed by a large amount in that kick but without increase much strength.

"Not yet." Lee finally stood up, and he shook his head for a bit to regain control of himself

"Your move please" Ada said to Lee

Lee cautiously moved forward with small steps in a fighting posture, while Ada stood her ground in a normal standing. Now the situation had reversed compare to when Leon against Lee. Leon tried everything, while Lee was so relaxing.

Even though Lee was knocked onto the ground, he was not ready to lose to a girl yet. He might not be the best fighter around, but he had never lost a fight to a girl like Ada, and he wouldn't want to let himself being beaten in front of Leon.

As Lee had reached in front of Ada, he was facing Ada with his right side. His looked at Ada as his right arm and leg moved closer. In a flash, Lee rushed his right hand toward Ada's neck, he wanted to grab her. It was so fast, Leon was only be able too see a flash of his arm. Ada simply slanted her upper body and the neck a little bit to the right. Just as Lee's hand looked like it was about to miss, he changed the hand's direction and it followed the movement of Ada's neck. He was about to grab her by the neck, but suddenly Ada waved her left hand and it pushed away Lee's attacking arm. Lee was surprised to see Ada's arm was already back to its original position, which was on the side of her as she was standing.

Lee crouched down and did a sweep kick at Ada's feet. Right before he was able to reach Ada's feet with his own leg, Ada flipped on the same spot. She dodged the sweep kick and she was standing where she was. Lee realized how fast Ada was. He started to use attacking combos, one move after another without stopping in between. Leon was impressed by all the cool moves Lee was pulling out. On the other hand, Ada dodged them all.

"That's it. I have to get a hold of her." Lee thought

Lee made another kick, Ada easily dodged it again. Then suddenly in Ada's view, Lee disappeared. He had lowered himself and moved to behind Ada in a flash.

"I have you now, sweetie!" Lee thought as he stood up and opened both of his arms to grab Ada from behind. All this was done in a flash.

Then he suddenly stopped with both hands were still in the air as he stood behind Ada. Ada had hit his face with her left elbow without even turn around or moving a step. She used only tiny bit of her strength, which was why Lee was not knocked away, but it was hard enough to made Lee's movement stopped. He was stunned for a moment.

Leon was amused to see such scene. Ada was standing with her elbow extended to her behind, and Lee was right behind her with both arms in the middle air in a grabbing position. Ada's elbow was still on Lee's face. Both of them were not moving.

"It's over." Ada pulled back her elbow and turned around to smile at Lee.

"No!" Lee regained control of his body and stepped back a few steps.

In a flash, Lee launched a jump kick. It was a special jump kick. Lee made a combo of total 9 kicks while he was still in the air. Ada dodged 6 of them and then blocked the last 3 with her forearms. Lee flipped back and landed where he was standing. He froze as he saw Ada had disappeared from his view. He was about to make another attack the moment he had landed, but Ada was no longer there in his view.

"Give it up, Lee. No more picking on Leon, ok?" Ada's voice came from behind him. She was standing right behind his back. Lee was so stunned. Ada was 3 meters in front of him before he landed. How did she…

Ada turned around and started to walk away "Thank you, Colonel Tao for taking Leon for the tour"

"Leon, lets go home."

Lee was speechless. He never thought Ada could have improved this much while away for the mission, but of course he did not know she did it without through the old fashion way.

Ada and Leon shared a long kiss before she purposely put her arm around Leon's, and the two lovers walked out of the room side by side while binding each other's arm. It made Lee angrier than ever, but he could do nothing. His high school sweetheart now had her heart completely stolen by an American. She even protected Leon from their little match.

Lee's teeth knocked together and he was close to lose control because of the anger.

"Down with the United States! Down with the American Imperialism!" He cursed.

"Umm Lee, I don't think you should hate 300 million American people because of one man. And we both know this has absolutely nothing to do with Imperialism." Colonel Tao spoke as he stood up.

Then all the sudden, Colonel Lee had just realized. He thought he was only cursing in his own head, but instead he had just really shouted it out loud and clear while both of his hands were in the air showing middle fingers at the door where Leon had just exited…in front of a room of over 30 people.

All the 30+ people in the room opened their mouth and looking at Lee with expanded eyes. Lee's face turned to bloody red before he put away his middle fingers and rushed out of the door at "near superhuman" speed.

"Honey, I still want to learn some moves." Leon said as they left the dojo

"It will take years to learn martial arts. Oh well, I will teach you a few moves."

"Great!" Leon was happy "That Lee was tough, for someone who is not a superhuman"

"He is not that tough. Mediocre at best."

"That's because you are a superhuman"

"Not really. I was talking about compare him with other real martial artists. The real masters probably could take me down even I am a superhuman"

"Wow, I didn't know that." Leon asked "How was the meeting?"

"It didn't progress much yet. We listened to a few agents' reports. That General Zhao who ordered the attack on Wesker's lab on the island has not made his report yet. He said he will have something important to show us tomorrow. All we know right now is that he had succeeded the assault on the lab, and obtained something valuable before his troops destroyed the entire lab." Ada replied "By the way, Leon. They wanted you to attend tomorrow's meeting too if you are willing. Someone had already reported you, an American secret service is here."

"Me? Why me? I am not a secret service any more." Leon was curious

"They somehow think you know a lot and they want to hear what you know about Wesker and a few other things."

"Not more than you do."

"They disagree. Would you like to attend the meeting?"

"I'll go wherever you go." Leon smiled at Ada

"Then it is settled. Tomorrow we will be leaving home the same time I had left today"

"Sure."

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Near Raccoon City,

Just half an hour after everyone left the camp house, the entrance of the tunnel.

"Why do we have to stay here? Nobody ever come across the river 3 miles from here, let alone come to this close to the defense perimeter" asked one of the two guards Nicholai had left behind to guard the camp house

"What do you want to do then?" The second guard asked

"Let's go have some fun."

"What if Nicholai find out?"

"He won't be back until around 7pm tomorrow. They will go in by around 8pm. We have 24 hours. Let's just come back by 6pm"

"I am not so sure about that."

"Look dude, we have been here for a couple of months already. Nobody ever come here but Nicholai and his men, and the workers."

"What if we run into some hitmen? You know Nicholai was almost hit."

"Nicholai was hit because he is a big fish. We are nobody. Who'd recognize us?"

"You got a point there, but we'd be fired if he find out."

"Then let's just make sure we come back in time."

"Ok, let's go then"

"Leave them here. We don't want to carry them around. Pistols are enough for self-defense." One guard put down his AK-47 assault rifle beside the entrance.

"Ok" The other guard did the same with his.

The two guards walked out of the camp house and got onto their car and left.

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At Ada's home, Leon was having dinner with Ada's family.

Suddenly Ada's communicator rang.

"Shhh, it is Wesker." Ada told everyone

"I thought you have turned that phone off." Leon replied

"I decided to turn it back on, since Wesker's base was attacked. This way I might gain more information if he is trying to call me."

"Yes?" Ada turned on the communicator while she let the screen to face herself with a wall as background

"Where have you been? I tried to reach you. Did you have your phone turned off again?" Wesker appeared on the screen

"Obviously" Ada only answered the last question

"We have an emergency situation. One of our bases was attacked. The communication was cut off before I could find out what happened. So I sent an agent there to find out. But she was captured, although she had planted a few hidden cameras there to transmit what was recorded once the jamming was over. About 20 hours ago, those hidden cameras had finally transmitted the videos of what happened. Guess what did I find out?"

"I wouldn't know."

"See for yourself." Wesker pressed a button and a video was transmitted onto Ada's screen

On the screen, some a couple hundred soldiers along with tanks, armored vehicles and attack helicopters completely surrounded the lab at night. A voice from a speaker

"This is the special force of People's Republic of China…"

"Interesting…" Ada replied "What are you going to do?"

"I want you to help saving that agent."

"heh? This isn't like you, Wesker. Since when you care about your agents? Other than myself?" Ada laughed

"This agent isn't not like any others. She is my adopted daughter."

"What?" Ada was amused "You never mentioned it before."

"Quit it. I want you to free her from the Chinese."

"I am a Chinese."

"I know, but there is no time for jokes. I want you to break her free from the Chinese authority. I have been tracking her location, since she has one tiny beacon implanted under her skin. Only I know the frequency to activate it."

"Where is she now?" Ada asked

"From the look of it, she is on a plane as we speak. It's now in northwest China area."

"You mean Xingjian?"

"Yeah, I just knew that you know China better than I do. Looks like the plane will have to land soon. I will transmit her location and a photo of her to you in a text message in a couple of hours." Wesker said. He rarely talked with such worried tone "Once you break her free, just let her go on her own. She knows how to contact me"

"What is her name?" Ada asked

"Lauren Wesker."

Leon heard that, and looked at Ada who did not look back at him.

"Anything else?" Ada asked "Don't tell me the rescue mission is the only thing you wanted. It's not like you at all, Wesker."

"There is one more thing, but it is expandable. I sent Lauren to retrieve a backup file from the attacked base. From the look of it, she might have got it. It is obviously in the hands of the Chinese authority by now. If you could get your hands on it, it would be really nice. If you can't retrieve the data, it's not a problem. I had been receiving all the data from that base every 3 months, and it had only been 2 months since the last one. The worst case, I get a 2 months set back on the research. Your priority is to free Lauren."

"I didn't know you have a soft side, Wesker." Ada smiled at the screen "Why did you put your daughter in danger in the first place?"

"You don't know me at all, Ada. You shouldn't ask about my personal matter. It's none of your business. You will be paid 3x of the usual amount once this is done. You have to succeed." Wesker said "Where are you now anyway?"

"It's none of your business. I will do the mission, that's all you need to know." Ada replied and cut the transmission.

Turned off the communicator, Ada looked at Leon.

"The teen girl we met in the restaurant at Spain was related to Wesker after all. I wonder how he managed to plant a fake ID file for her in the government's file system." Leon asked

"It wouldn't be hard for him." Ada replied

"General Zhao must want to show us the girl and the files he got. He said there would be something important to show us tomorrow." General Wong joined in "What are you going to do about this rescue mission? We can't just release Wesker's daughter, nor General Zhao will just hand over his trophy."

"We'll see. Don't worry too much right now, dad. Now we have the proof that General Zhao's attack did alert Wesker, possibility other reminders of old Umbrella too. Wesker now knew it was Chinese military attacked his lab" Ada smiled at her dad "The council approved his attack because he had promised that nobody would know who did it"

"Indeed" Leon replied "I am just curious, why would someone like Wesker have an adopted daughter."

"Let me ask the girl tomorrow if we get to see her."

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In the area of the old Raccoon City, hours after hours of heavy rain hit the ground.

Deep inside the empty tunnel dig by Nicholai's workers, the last meter of dirt was slowly collapsing…

To be continued…

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